Job Description Summary
The Staff Software Engineer will serve as a technical leader for test automation and Continuous Testing across CT software products. This role is responsible for defining the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for scalable automation frameworks and platforms that enable reliable, repeatable, and efficient software verification.
The individual will lead the design and evolution of automation solutions using technologies such as Squish, Selenium, BDD frameworks, and CI/CD platforms. The role requires deep technical expertise, hands on software development capabilities, and the ability to guide globally distributed engineering teams toward common automation standards, framework guidelines, and engineering practices.
The Staff Software Engineer will work across product, software, verification, systems, architecture, and DevOps teams to improve automation coverage, test reliability, execution efficiency, and Continuous Testing adoption. The individual will influence technical decisions across multiple teams and product lines while ensuring that automation platforms remain scalable, maintainable, reusable, and aligned with product and business roadmaps.
Job Description
In this role, you will:
• Serve as the technical leader for the test automation team, providing technical direction, architecture guidance, and hands on support for complex automation challenges.
• Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the Continuous Testing platform across multiple CT products and software configurations.
• Lead the design, development, integration, and maintenance of scalable automation frameworks using Squish, Selenium, BDD, and other appropriate automation technologies.
• Establish a common automation architecture that supports desktop, web, service, and hybrid application workflows.
• Provide technical leadership for automating complex desktop applications, including applications built using Java Swing and applications containing embedded browser technologies.
• Drive the integration of Squish and Selenium automation into a unified Continuous Testing platform that supports reliable end to end workflow verification.
• Define and enforce automation development guidelines, framework standards, coding practices, review criteria, tagging conventions, reporting requirements, and test reliability expectations.
• Influence globally distributed software and verification teams to adopt common automation frameworks, reusable components, engineering practices, and Continuous Testing guidelines.
• Partner with global teams to understand product specific needs while ensuring that locally developed solutions align with the overall platform architecture and long term technical strategy.
• Provide hands on technical leadership through architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, technical deep dives, troubleshooting, and implementation of critical framework components.
• Lead the modernization of existing automation assets, including conversion of legacy Squish tests and older BDD implementations into standardized, maintainable, and reusable automation models.
• Develop reusable automation libraries, services, utilities, and platform capabilities that can be adopted across multiple products and engineering teams.
• Improve automation reliability through effective synchronization, object recognition, environment management, failure recovery, logging, diagnostics, and reporting capabilities.
• Lead technical efforts to distinguish product defects, automation issues, infrastructure failures, configuration problems, and environmental conditions during automated test execution.
• Drive improvements in automated test execution time, parallel execution, resource utilization, configuration based test selection, and overall platform scalability.
• Enable onboarding of Selenium and other automation suites into the Continuous Testing infrastructure.
• Ensure that the Continuous Testing platform supports…